Enclosure No. 2.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong......1st August, 19230..
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No..... 6 of 19430.
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1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an Ordinance to amend the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.
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The second paragraph of section 4 of the New Territories
· Regulation Ordinance, 1910, is not necessary and has given rise to doubts as it seems to authorise the application to the New Territories of regulations, etc., apart from the Ordinance (with penalty clauses) under which they are made. Section 2 of this Ordinance therefore repeals that paragraph. Section 20 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, which gives the Land Officer a general power to decide all questions regarding any land in the New Territories, provides that he shall not have power to decide "any question or dispute in respect of any land having a capital value exceeding five thousand dollars, or an annual value exceeding five hundred dollars, unless with
the written consent of the parties".
Section 3 of the
Ordinance defines the term "land" in such a way that in some